The first indication of the account
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 10:50 am
Everything was going well, so well in fact that his Instagram profile already had more than 13,400 followers , until a few days ago the official Rei Zentolo Instagram account was hijacked by hackers.
A being lost was, of course, that the people in charge couldn’t access the account. Once the team reported the problem to Isaac González, Rei Zentolo’s marketing director , the manager contacted the account, which responded with a story putting its profile “up for sale,” and Rei Zentolo replied that it was interested in acquiring it, which triggered “the most expensive joke on social media” according to the company.
The cybercriminals asked the company to deposit 200 euros in bolivia business email database bitcoins to release the profile, or else they would delete the account, but the Galician clothing brand's response was spectacular: taking it with humor.
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The first thing the brand did was offer 10 euros in bitcoins in exchange for "proof of life and a post on the account" so that the cybercriminal "could act as a community manager for a while," the company joked, as it says on its blog .
After failing to negotiate this payment, and claiming that none of them knew how to deposit in bitcoins, he proposed to "make the payment in pesetas", something that, as a joke, "was closer to their possibilities."
A being lost was, of course, that the people in charge couldn’t access the account. Once the team reported the problem to Isaac González, Rei Zentolo’s marketing director , the manager contacted the account, which responded with a story putting its profile “up for sale,” and Rei Zentolo replied that it was interested in acquiring it, which triggered “the most expensive joke on social media” according to the company.
The cybercriminals asked the company to deposit 200 euros in bolivia business email database bitcoins to release the profile, or else they would delete the account, but the Galician clothing brand's response was spectacular: taking it with humor.
[Tweet «The Instagram account of the Galician fashion brand @Reinzentolo was hacked, and the Galician fashion brand said goodbye with a lot of humor.»]
The first thing the brand did was offer 10 euros in bitcoins in exchange for "proof of life and a post on the account" so that the cybercriminal "could act as a community manager for a while," the company joked, as it says on its blog .
After failing to negotiate this payment, and claiming that none of them knew how to deposit in bitcoins, he proposed to "make the payment in pesetas", something that, as a joke, "was closer to their possibilities."